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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for May 26, 2025
2024 Roseblood d’Estoublon Rose (Coteaux Varois en Provence): Utterly delicious. Rose petals, wild red berries, and equal parts fun and refinement. $27 B+ 2023 Domaine de Cabasse ‘Le Rose’ (Mediterranee): Floral and earthy, and very round in the mid-section. $NA…
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“We’re Cooler Than You Think” (Livermore Valley 2025 Tasting Report @ Cristaldi & Co.)
I’m excited to share something that I’ve been working on over the past several weeks (months?), which is one of the first available tasting reports at Cristaldi & Co. Spearheaded by my longtime friend, biz partner, and super-cool Decanter writer…
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Uncorking Livermore Valley’s Best (Uncorked! 2025 Wine Competition Winners)
I feel as though I have a long history with a crap-ton of wine regions at this point… because, well, I do. Livermore Valley is one such region, and I was thrilled to get back there on a media jaunt…
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Humboldt Out of the Blue (Chile’s Cooling Current)
At this point, I think that Chilean wine is almost running out of marketing angles. To be fair, we’ve seen a whole hell of a lot of those angles over the years, and pretty much all of them have been…
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